Instagram, three new ways to view posts in the feed are coming

Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, today announced the start of the implementation on the platform of a new feature that will allow you to choose between three different ways of viewing the feed. At the moment, this feature has only been activated for a small number of users.

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This isn’t the first time Instagram has stated plans to roll out a new option for displaying posts in the main feed. Already at the beginning of last December, we recall, the company of the Meta group had stated that it was planning to restore an option to view the posts in the feed in chronological order while maintaining the current system via algorithm.

Testing Feed Changes 👀

We’re starting to test the ability to switch between three different views on your home screen (two of which would give you the option to see posts in chronological order):
– Home
– Favorites
– Following

We hope to launch these soon. More to come. ✌🏼 pic.twitter.com/9zvB85aPSp

— Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) January 5, 2022

Mosseri himself, after testifying before the US Senate as part of a series of hearings related to online safety for children and adolescents, said the company had been working “for months” to add a chronological option to the app. hoping to launch it in the first quarter of 2022.

Today’s news not only concerns the ability to see posts in chronological or classic order but there is also another mode: the “home” view will be the classic one of Instagram, the current one in which posts are displayed based on content that may be of interest to the user based on his interactions with the platform; the “favorites” view will allow you to view all the posts of a selection of users; the “followed” view will allow the chronological view, based on the moment in which the accounts we follow have published content.

As mentioned, these new feed options are already available to some users but Instagram plans to roll them out on a large scale starting in the next few weeks. By the first half of 2022, these three modes will be available to all users. What do you think of this change?